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Cite as: [2020] JRC 53B, [2020] JRC 053B
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Bail application - Manslaughter
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Before : |
A. J. Olsen, Esq., Lieutenant Bailiff, and Jurats Christensen and Hughes |
The Attorney General
-v-
Brian McMahon
R. C. P. Pedley Esq., Crown Advocate.
Advocate J. W. R. Bell for the Defendant.
JUDGMENT
THE Lieutenant BAILIFF:
1. The Court is unanimously of the view that this application must be refused.
2. Advocate Bell, we have listened very carefully to everything you have said, but the fact of the matter is that this was a very serious offence and someone has lost his life in consequence of it. The Court, without second guessing the Superior Number in due course, feels that a custodial sentence of some length is inevitable; society as a whole would be appalled if the Court did not imprison someone who had killed a man in a drunken brawl.
3. Your client has been offered a secure place at HMP La Moye. We are told by the Crown Advocate that there are no known cases of Covid 19 there. The prison is curtailing visitors and an isolation unit is being offered. We are not in doubt that Mr McMahon would be safer there than in the community, and we also take into account that he would have better access to medical help while in custody.
4. Therefore the application is refused.
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